{ "id": "1710.04902", "version": "v1", "published": "2017-10-13T13:10:39.000Z", "updated": "2017-10-13T13:10:39.000Z", "title": "Rigidity and geometricity for surface group actions on the circle", "authors": [ "Kathryn Mann", "Maxime Wolff" ], "categories": [ "math.GT", "math.DS" ], "abstract": "We prove that rigid representations of the fundamental group of a surface into the group of oreintation-preserving homeomorphisms of the circle are geometric, thereby establishing a converse statement of a theorem by the first author.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2017-10-13T13:10:39.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "surface group actions", "geometricity", "rigid representations", "fundamental group", "converse statement" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }